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Katherine
Activities Assistant
From
Massachusetts
,
United States
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Katherine
Activities Assistant
Activities Assistant
Aromatherapy Bingo
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Katherine
Activities Assistant
Activities Assistant
Also, I lead a trivia challenge afternoon, and when I first started doing this, they were bored, which made for a long hour... What I started doing, is starting the group with fun facts, puns and jok...
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Katherine
Activities Assistant
Activities Assistant
I have a template that I got from another site. It's a getting to know you UNO game, I will try to share the activity. For each color, and number there is a question to ask. (ie.. favorite song, f...
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Katherine
Activities Assistant
Activities Assistant
Susan, I sure am trying. I had to think outside the box. I am relatively new to this position (Activity Assistant), and it is me by myself on our memory care unit. From my understanding, we used to...
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Katherine
Activities Assistant
Activities Assistant
Megan,
I am struggling with the same. I have 34 residents, and it is just me. I struggle getting them to come to activities, and keeping them engaged. What works today, doesn't work tomorrow, I...
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Katherine
Activities Assistant
Activities Assistant
When I worked in a day program for adults w/ dd, something I did was to make "Activity Sticks" I put all kinds of activities on popsicle sticks, and put them in a jar. Ranging from Music, exercise,...
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Katherine
Activities Assistant
Activities Assistant
Doing mindfulness workshops. Years back I worked for a place, that promoted this philosophy called FISH.. upper management had gone through a training. "Fish" was developed in Washington State/ base...
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Katherine
Activities Assistant
Activities Assistant
Hi all, I was hoping I could get some suggestions. I am new Activities Assistant in a Senior Living Center. My experience in "activities" comes from working with Adults with Developmental Disabili...
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Katherine
Activities Assistant
Activities Assistant
I do Monopoly $ as prizes, then every other week we go “shopping”. I was able to get lots of donations of little trinkets, I hit up yard sales for for odds and ends. I was able to get a lot of costum...
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